Sonnets written chiefly during a tour through Holland, Germany, Italy, Turkey, and Hungary. By Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley |
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INEZ TO MANUEL.
May skies unclouded canopy thy head!—Bright be thy places of abiding still!—
Fair be the paths of thy far travel, till
Once more thou mayst on shores familiar tread!—
Be blessings everywhere about thee shed,—
O'er sea and land, o'er plain and sky-kissed hill,
And good thy portion be, uncrossed by ill!
Ne'er may thy web be mixed with one dark thread!
More inarticulate blessings, from Thought's hoards,
Swell on my Soul; but my reluctant tongue
Must speak, that word which swallows up all words,
Farewell!—the music of all tears!—'tis wrung
Now from my heavy Heart, whose trembling chords
Thrill keenly, all o'erstricken—as o'erstrung!
Constantinople.
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